Drugs: Babies

Norman Lamb: To ask the Secretary of State for Health how many children were drug dependent at birth in each region in each of the last five years; and what the numbers of such children in the case of each type of drug were.

Dawn Primarolo: The following tables show the number of finished consultant episodes (FCEs) where the primary or secondary diagnosis was either neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal use of drugs of addiction or withdrawal from therapeutic use of drugs in newborns. It is not possible to provide information on the type of drug to which a newborn child is addicted.
	
		
			  Counts of FCEs with a primary or secondary diagnosis of neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal use of drugs by strategic health authority (SHA) of residence for the period 2006-07 and 2007-08 
			  SHA of residence  Total finished consultant birth episodes 
			   2006-07  2007-08 
			 North East SHA 52 9 
			 North West SHA 100 145 
			 Yorkshire and the Humber SHA 163 122 
			 East Midlands SHA 64 51 
			 West Midlands SHA 82 56 
			 East of England SHA 95 66 
			 London SHA 66 51 
			 South East Coast SHA 40 30 
			 South Central SHA 20 42 
			 South West SHA 60 81 
			 Other and unknown 469 577 
			
			 Total 1,211 1,230 
		
	
	
		
			  Counts of FCEs with a primary or secondary diagnosis of neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal use of drugs by SHA of residence for the period 2003-04 and 2005-06 
			  SHA of residence  Total finished consultant birth episodes 
			   2005-06  2004-05  2003-04 
			 Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridge SHA * * * 
			 Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire SHA 12 16 10 
			 Essex SHA 0 8 * 
			 North West London SHA 11 11 11 
			 North Central London SHA 12 13 * 
			 North East London SHA * 0 * 
			 South East London SHA * * * 
			 South West London SHA * 0 * 
			 Northumberland, Tyne and Wear SHA 6 * * 
			 County Durham and Tees Valley SHA 17 30 40 
			 North and East Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire SHA 23 27 45 
			 West Yorkshire SHA 12 11 27 
			 Cumbria and Lancashire SHA 7 12 16 
			 Greater Manchester SHA 10 8 11 
			 Cheshire and Merseyside SHA 54 63 40 
			 Thames Valley SHA 7 * * 
			 Hampshire and Isle of Wight SHA * 9 7 
			 Kent and Medway SHA 0 * * 
			 Surrey and Sussex SHA 13 11 13 
			 Avon, Gloucestershire and Wiltshire SHA 62 40 44 
			 South West Peninsula SHA 17 17 10 
			 Dorset and Somerset SHA 28 8 9 
			 South Yorkshire SHA * * * 
			 Trent SHA 6 8 10 
			 Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland SHA 21 * 0 
			 Shropshire and Staffordshire SHA 13 6 12 
			 Birmingham and the Black Country SHA * * * 
			 West Midlands South SHA * 0 6 
			 Other and unknown 860 873 817 
			 
			 Total 1,211 1,193 1,156 
			  Notes: 1. ICD-10 diagnosis codes used: P96.1 Neonatal withdrawal symptoms from maternal use of drugs of addiction. P96.2 Withdrawal symptoms form therapeutic use of drugs in newborn. 2. Low numbers: Due to reasons of confidentiality, figures between one and five have been suppressed and replaced with '*' (an asterisk). 3. Ungrossed data: Figures have not been adjusted for shortfalls in data (i.e. the data are ungrossed).  Source: Hospital Episode Statistics, The Information Centre for health and social care